Racial Identity Readings

Articles on Identity and teaching related issues by Kecia M. Thomas

Avery, D.A. & Thomas, K.M. (in press) Blending content and contact: The roles of diversity curriculum and campus heterogeneity in fostering diversity management competency. Academy of Management Learning and Education.

Chrobot-Mason, D.L. & Thomas, K.M. (2002). Minority employees in majority organizations: The intersection of individual and organizational racial identity in the workplace. Human Resource Development Review, 1(3), 323-344.

Mack, D. A., Johnson, C. D., Green, T. D., Parisi, A. G., & Thomas, K. M. (2002). Motivation to control prejudice as a mediator of Whites’ ethnic identity and affirmative action attitudes. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 32(1), 1-33.

Thomas, K. M. (1996). Psychological privilege and ethnocentrism as barriers to cross-cultural adjustment and effective intercultural interactions. Leadership Quarterly: An International Journal of Political, Social and Behavioral Science, 7 [Special Issue: Leadership and Diversity], 217-230.

Thomas, K. M., Phillips, L. D., & Brown, S. (1998). Redefining race in the workplace: Insights from ethnic identity theory, Journal of Black Psychology, 24 (1), 76-92.

Other recommended reading

Helms, J.E. (1993). I also said, “White racial identity influences White researchers.” The Counseling Psychologist, 21, 240-243.

Helms, J.E., & Piper, R.E. (1994). Implications of Racial Identity Theory for Vocational Psychology. Journal of Vocational Psychology, 44, 124-138

Jacques, R. (1997). The unbearable Whiteness of Being: Reflections of a Pale, Stale Male. In Prasad, P., Mills, A.J., Elmes, M., Prasad, A. (Eds). Managing the

Organizational Melting Pot: Dilemmas of Workplace Diversity. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage

Schofield, J. W. (1986). Causes and consequences of the colorblind perspective. In Dovidio & Gaertner's (Eds.), Prejudice, Discrimination, and Racism. NY: Academic Press.

Tatum, B.D. (1992). Talking about race, learning about racism: Application of racial identity development theory in the classroom. Harvard Educational Review, 62, 1-24.